Santa was kind enough to drop of a brand new GoPro Hero HD mini camcorder including the full vehicle mounting kit. 

The new model now support full HD up to 1080p and 30fps or 720p at 60 fps - amonts other various resolutions. When running with a 32GB HDSC card that's good for at least 4h of video footage, 8h and more at 720p @ 30 fps. 

Given the need for the occasional slow motion clips, I opted to run the 720p@60fps for the first trial runs.